cosmopolitism

Perhaps it does more good than bad and we'd be worse off living without patriotism/nationalism, but I think we should be honest about why they are useful--and its not to foster thoughtful, sophisticated cosmopolitism.

Balkinization 2007

I think expecting school children to understand "thoughtful, rational consideration of whether support or criticism is appropriate in any given instance" or "thoughtful, sophisticated cosmopolitism" in elementary school is, after all, asking a lot.

Balkinization 2007

Dotted with quaint architecture of 12th and 13th century Romanesque and Gothic design, the hills of Vienne department, France, cradle the crystal-clear and drowsy-moving waters of the Gartempe, a river, which in its course winds through the town of Montmorillon, where four thousand French peasantry, on August 7th, received their first lesson in American cosmopolitism.

The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman

The family of Cæsar, placed in the centre of the great struggle going on in Rome between the old Roman militarism, and the intellectual civilisation of the Orient, between nationalism and cosmopolitism, between Asiatic mysticism and traditional religion, between egoism over-excited by culture and wealth, and the supreme interests of the species, had to injure too many interests, to offend too many susceptibilities.

Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

Christianity -- cosmopolitism, mysticism, the domination of intellectual people, the influence of the philosophical and metaphysical spirit on life.

Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

What indeed entitles either Madame de Sevigne or Rahel to fame, but their very nationality -- that intensely local style of language and feeling which clothes their genius with a living body instead of leaving it in the abstractions of a dreary cosmopolitism?

Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

This was in a manner also the finale of the German notes that so strangely resounded in that Gallic time; the restoration suppressed every further outburst of patriotism, and the patriotic spirit that had begun to breathe forth in verse once more gave place to cosmopolitism and Gallicism.

Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

With warm affections, and benevolence guided and governed in its objects by reason and religion; indulgent to human nature in general, and loving it, but not with German cosmopolitism -- first and best, loving her daughter, her family, comprising

Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Maria Edgeworth 1808

There may come a higher virtue in both — just cosmopolitism.

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

It would be a fine national custom to act such a series of dramatic histories in orderly succession, in the yearly Christmas holidays, and could not but tend to counteract that mock cosmopolitism, which under a positive term really implies nothing but a negation of, or indifference to, the particular love of our country.

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803